Flash in the Metropolitan
The flashing strobe light used in the filming allows the viewer to see the objects as if in animation. The viewer is only granted a fleeting glimpse of a series of artefacts, which, with any detail removed, reduces their status to an icon without a narrative.
Also in this combined programme
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Méliès (Single Screen)
Local residents explain that a mountain near Sierra Blanca has been named Movie Mountain since the early 1900s because of the brother of Georges Méliè -
Speech Act
A middle-aged man reflects on Avatar, the most expensive and highest-grossing film ever. His soliloquy however turns into a meditation on life at larg
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
